Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!scs From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: <2140@itivax.iti.org> Date: 14 Jul 89 13:42:11 GMT References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. Lines: 18 karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >clewis@eci386.uucp writes: >> Can you just imagine if two rabid-rerouters thought that the best way to >> site "foo" was thru each other? >The fact that you address the matter as "if" implies that you have >never seen this occur. Is this so? I have never seen it occur, >either. Therefore, in practice, this is no threat. Regretfully I have seen this occur. Several times. Sites involved included rutgers vs ames and several others. I didn't keep copies (sorry, no proof :-( ) but recall it most vividly. Mind you it only happens once a year or so, but it *has* happened. -- Steve Simmons scs@vax3.iti.org Industrial Technology Institute Ann Arbor, MI. "Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai